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My grandpa has a pace maker so he can't go through the metal detector. You should see the crazy rub down they give him! The whole family will be through security and we will all have our stuff collected and back in our pockets and they are still giving him a pat down.

What amazes me is that they actually pretend they're not quite sure it's you. I mean come on, really? Are there really other people out there that look anything like you at all? Of course I've heard that all "movie stars" look different in person than on TV so maybe I'm wrong. Although I admit, if I saw you in an airport I'd be a little (read as: a lot) starstruck myself! (:

Dude, don't you think that in LA he'd be used to celebrity sightings already? Give a guy a break.

Once, when I was randomly selected the guy tried to get me to drink a bottle of formula for my baby to prove it wasn't something nefarious. I poured it out instead and made the baby a new bottle on the plane.

I guess the guy just was shocked he had you in front of him Jorge, Pleazze give him a break :) . Look at the bright side, by now you should be in LA. I guess you are going to stay there for a couple of days though. Rumor has it you are going to Spain on the 20th, (People from Spain say the hosts of this show you are going to be on, at Cuatro, are totally clueless about everything, whenever someone like you goes they totally freak out, lol) Un abrazo hermano!

i had someone once come up to me and ask me if i was "that guy from lost" because i look so like you. I asked what guy and he said "the big dude... ive only seen it once or twice but im sure its you, can i have an autograph"

I always hear of people being selected for random additional screening, but I've never been picked. I travel enough to maintain the special frequent flyer status on airlines. I don't know what sets off TSA people to randomly select people.

I'm not sure if the TSA guy picked you just to ask that question, though I can see it being a bit annoying asking if you're on LOST. If he asked for an autograph, I could see getting really annoyed.

But hey, at least people know what you do for a living and think it's cool to talk about. No one ever runs in to me and asks if I'm the guy who works on networking software in Linux.

That sucks. I am sorry that happened. I got selected, along with my 2 little kids, last summer when we were flying alone. Let me tell you, having big manly stranger pat your 3 year old down doesn't scare her one bit. Getting her to walk through that blowing machine by herself was a joke.

I guess the real question is when did they decide to do the secondary screening? Someone I knew was "randomly selected" for a secondary screening, but the system had done it-- there was something extra printed on her boarding pass.

In Tampa once I got selected for random screening. It was when they'd just come out with the machine that takes pictures of you essentially without your clothes on. Heard of it? I got the liberty of being their guinea pig for that one. Then at the gate, my boyfriend got stopped before boarding the plane and they went through his luggage and pockets. We must have seemed suspicious. I don't know. It creeped me out. But seriously -- a random screening is not the time to be starstruck. Definitely would have made me feel it were a little less random.

Ah, random issue aside, who wouldn't want a nice public rubdown and up and around. Personally, I love being touched by strangers, in front of other strangers. PDA, rocks!To quote a famous man, "It's such a good feeling....." Mr. Rogers

Honestly, I think they just count to a certain number of people, then select someone, then count again and select again.

I get selected almost every time I travel (few times a year). There is nothing about me that would make them look at me and based on that, pick me for random searching. That's why I think they just count to a random number. It's annoying, though.

I'd be annoyed, too, if I was famous and someone asked me if I was so and so during a random search.

Welcome back to LA, Jorge....I too thought the people over at LAX would be over the celebrity sighting thing. Pretty lame.....I got felt up there once during a security screening, too. Thankfully, the girl didn't try to make conversation with me. I was actually kind of amused - because I can totally see how I look like a hardcore, bomb-toting terrorist. Jeez, people....(rolling eyes)

I don't think its random. I had a guy friend who was 6'5" and not a rail thin tall guy either. He flew A LOT and got checked nearly every single time he got on a plane. I think they just pick them for whatever reason they feel like. One time I didn't even have my bag opened when I had a whole bunch of random tv production equipment that could have been just about anything! I guess I wasn't scary enough. ;)

That sucks. It happened to me one time with a 9 month old baby. I was flying home b/c my grandpa died. They dumped all of his bottles full of water. I was SOO angry.I'm a new fan :) I was lead to your blog by another mom, on a mothering board. My husband and I are now half way through the first season.I thought you might appriciate the fact that your blog lead me to want to watch and I'm loving it! You are HILARIOUS!

ughh that's got to be awful! for some reason i'm always selected when i'm traveling alone with my 3 kids! What a PAIN! They are under the age of 5 and just start taking off, I get paranoid and they tell ME to calm down! Argg..

Hey my husband's Arab and gets "randomly" selected every time we fly... and once when he was in the little underground room for questioning and they found out who he was and what he did, they then asked for autographs before they let him go, super unprofessional. But hey I guess we should count ourselves lucky he didn't get extraordinarily renditioned or something (mmm getting political now, somebody stop me!)

you should have autographed his front teeth with your fist,lol. also you should have said,are you a real or fake cop? it is a police state now and all freedoms are no more. welcome to the communist usa. ;)

I occasionally talk to well-known performers at my job, and I couldn't imagine calling attention to that during a business situation, let alone a security situation. I'd like to think these people have their minds on their work, rather than last week's ep of LOST.

Then again, excising LOST from your thoughts can be awfully difficult. I know I've been pondering Ben Linus's motives all day. ;-]

Jorge, the "randomly selected for additional screening" is done entirely by the airline's computer system except for when the passenger doesn't have an ID. You might have bought the ticket on the same day and been selected for that. You might have paid for the ticket is cash and that caused it. You might have changed airlines and that does it. Sheesh. Why does everyone get paranoid because of what a computer selects and prints on a ticket automatically?

People tend to forget September 11 ever happened and they hate security. I was standing in line behind a guy complaining about the process and the next guy told him to "Shut the F up. I was in the Trade Center when the planes hit." That brings one back to reality quickly.

The guy recognized you and that made him happy. He doesn't get the big bucks and the fame, and he's getting jeered for trying to keep strangers safe on a trip in an aluminum tube with wings.

Dude, they just wanted to spend some time with you, they knew who you were! Hope you had a Happy Easter. Please tell Josh congratulations on the birth of his baby girl, I know he'll make a great dad!! Peace!

My husband's 70 year old aunt has a pacemaker. They wanted to make sure she wasn't using that as a way to smuggle in drugs, so they chose her to do a complete nude body cavity search. That poor woman was emotionally wounded. She will never fly again.By the way, I just found your blog and love it. I have read it all the way to the beginning.http://thejoysofmommy.blogspot.com

Deleted my first comment: I shouldn't be up this late trying to post. My spelling is horrible. Anyway, I'm a flight attendant, and I flew through LAX on Sunday and they just can't help themselves there. They chose my bag that said, CREW on it, to go through the machine twice because my curling iron looked questionable. Oh geez.

I'm always selected - once they told me that my last name, Lopez, is a favorite of terrorists taking common names to fit in. Yeah, right! Once they asked me if I wanted to go in a room for the patdown and said no, whatever you are going to do, do it right here. Might be those letters I wrote to Bush asking him to resign - maybe.

I was selected because of the barcode on my ticket or something once. But on my last flight, they were set up to search someone and I got the same feeling I do when I'm driving and I see a cop behind me...

2 weeks ago at the airport in LA, I had too many zippers in my pants to get through the initial screening so I had to be wanded and patted down. The TSA agent noticed my Oceanic Air shirt and said "What is that? Some kind of made up name??"

look, everyone just wants a piece of you. even the lowly security dudes. you probably made their day. ps awesome last episode - you had the funniest lines and i loved how much you were on screen - i hope they listen to your input and stuff :)

Good job on the show last night. After becoming a regular reader of your blog, it's really struck me how DIFFERENT you are from Hurley. Now I've got a much deeper respect for the acting you do and the transformation you pull off week to week. Really enjoyed you in last night's episode.

That's kind of a fan-boy-ish thing to say, so sorry about that...but whatever. I think people deserve to hear/read the words "nice job" from a stranger now and again! :)

hi jorge greetings from mexico!! i love your blog!! give a kiss to my part to terry o'quinn !! that love him, hehe! joke.. I also have a blog I hope you can visit it is dedicated to terry but also lost, take care and namaste!!

You got felt up at the airport, and it wasn't even a hot chick doing the feeling up? Frakkin' security. You should stuff a cucumber wrapped in aluminum foil down your pants the next time you go on a flight.

I was "randomly selected" on a flight with only 13 passengers. Got on the plane, had to get off b/c of engine trouble. Before reloading onto the new plane they actually had to check me again though I never even left the gate. So much for "random"!

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